Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel confident that within the first six months of 1934 the entire legal liquor industry will have settled down to normalcy. . . . The hectic condition that prevailed at the time of Repeal was unavoidable...
Celebration. The news meant more to silver men than Repeal meant to distillers. In Colorado and Nevada there was singing in the streets and free drinks in the bars. On the Manhattan Commodities Exchange silver jumped 3? an ounce. Mining stocks boomed on the New York Stock Exchange and the entire stock list zoomed upward at one more whiff of inflation...
...made in the form of the stronger malt beverages, of porter and ale, but the limit itself must be reduced to eightees years. Not only the convenience of the marginal group is involved, but also that necessity for same and enforceable law upon which so much of the repeal propaganda itself was based...
When Congress convenes next month, one of its first jobs will be the imposition of new liquor taxes. They will have to be high enough to compensate for the emergency tax schedule in the National Recovery Act which President Roosevelt declared inoperative with Repeal. They will have to be low enough to make bootlegging unprofitable. First official intimation of how this delicate balance might be effected came last week from a special interdepartmental committee which handed the President a set of proposed liquor rates. The committee suggested...
...their work in behalf of Repeal, Alfred Emanuel Smith and Radio Priest Charles Edward Coughlin were elected honorary members of the Boston Bartenders' Union...